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title: One June morning, just before graduation, Mr. Moody took us for an e… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: One June morning, just before graduation, Mr. Moody took us for an early drive. Who acts: Moody. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 30

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One June morning, just before graduation, Mr. Moody took us for an early drive.

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**Who acts:** Moody · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** us

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75089:3:30
# text = One June morning, just before graduation, Mr. Moody took us for an early drive.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	graduation	graduation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	Moody	Moody	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	drive	drive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Moody  Mr. |  | us |  | morning | for a early drive | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent we=Theme for drive=Beneficiary |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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